Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-23
EYES ANALYZED. A
What Qualities of Temperament
Should Go With the Black, the
Brown, the Blue.

What Qualities of Temperament
Should Go With the Black, the
RroWns the Blue.
lFrom the st. James Gazette
Speaking popularly, we may say that eyes
are brown, blue, gray, hazel, black, green OF
of no color at ALL The last three varieties,
however, are based on misnomer. Speaking
generally again, we may say that blue eyes
take care of their friends, brown of their
enemies, gray of their countries, black of
their pleasures and green of themselves.
The blue is certainly the type with the great
est number of varieties. It is color that
illustrates pre-emiuently the feminine quail
ties-tenderness, affection, a yielding to the
wishes of others, a sympathy with small suf-
ferings, that measure of vanity without
which no woman can be entirely attractive,
and that self surrender which goes far to
persuade man that he is demigod because
his wife believes it and tells him so. The
color seems to be getting more rare in these
days. This is the blue that goes with golden
hair. Blue eyes must be mated with their
appropriate complexion. That color, SO fas
cinating in a blonde, is no less delightful in
a brunette; but-say the scientists-its
meaning is now altered. There comes in
now, coupled with the affectionate qualities,
certain tendency to deceive, stimulated by
an ambition for conquest and leading to the
qualification of admiration. There remain
the light blue and the violet. The first is
the eye of the northern races-of the SweGes
and the Danes, of the Scotch sometimes also.
1t suggests constancy and truth, steadfast
ness, simplicity, courage, purpose. 1t is a
mans eye, with its moderation and self-re-
spect-honest in the glance it gives you, if
at the same time rather cold and phlegmat-
ic. And then there is the violet eye, which
is a woman's eye, and of which the main
characteristics are affection and purity,
chivalric belief and limited or deficient in
tellectuality.
And now come the brown eyes. They are
the eyes of the South and of the East-of
the sunny races; the most passionate and the
least original, and to them belong the lus-
trous black hair and the olive complexion of
skin. With them we get jealousy and cruel
ty, somewhat of the feline nature in women;
and in men courage coupled with supersti-
ton, wild recklessness of life and disre-
gard for the sufferings of others. But the
type has altered through infinite modifca-
tions; and there are brown eyes in plenty
that have nothing in common with the pas
sionate qualities of the South. This may be
generally predicted; that when the brown is
light the disposition is aFectionate but way
ward, and as that brown darkens you pass
from affection to passion.
Last come the hazel eyes, which moro
frequent in novels than in life. No two peo-
pie seem quite agreed as to the definition of
the color, and the reference to a hazel nut,
which starts by being green and passes
through yellow to brown, confusingly illus
trates every theory. A blue-gray radiated
from within with brown and bronze streaks
seems to come nearest the general view.
Adopting this as the color, it will be seen
that they are chiefly found among the mixed
races, and especially the English and the
Americans. They always suggest good
deal of strength of character, generally
sense of mischief and trickiness-Puck prob
ably had hazel eyes-and sometimes that hu-
morous cruelty which belongs to the Anglo
Saxon race. Hazel-eyed people are rarely
shallow, and you must be prepared for sur
prises when you have to deal with them.